5th Annual FungiFest & Mushroom Show
2021-10-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory and Central Oregon Mushroom Club for a special day dedicated to appreciating and understanding fungi!
This year’s event will feature:

Mushroom display showcasing hundreds of fungi specimens
Mushroom marketplace – Specialty vendors offering fresh and dried mushrooms, artwork, native plants, mushroom hunting products, field guides, food, and more
Cooking demonstrations with Chef Zachary Mazi
Guided mushroom walks
Children’s activities
Mushroom ID station and foraging resources

Central Oregon - Cascade Lakes Clean Up
2021-10-10
SPECIAL PLACES DESERVE SPECIAL ATTENTION
For over a quarter century, Wanderlust Tours has been giving back to the beautiful Central Oregon landscape and bringing our community together through volunteer events.
After the summer months, our high lakes need some TLC. Join the Wanderlust Tours staff in picking up trash from these special places!
*Registration is FREE – but required* | Wanderlusttours.com/cascade-lakes-clean-up

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING WEEK 2021!
2021-10-11 - 2021-10-16
October 11, 2021 kicks off the fourth annual Sustainable Building Week (SBW), an event-filled week from a cross section of Portland’s design professional organizations. The week will bring the best and brightest building professional organizations together to educate, connect and foster opportunities for future collaboration to Keep Portland Green. Whether its combating climate change, protecting our natural resources or investigating the increasing number of dangerous chemicals in our indoor spaces, the multitude of issues that need to be addressed require more attention by all of us.

Indigenous Peoples' Day
2021-10-11
Please join COCC on Monday, October 11th on campus(and online) for a series of workshops and events to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. These events are open to all and are a chance to reflect on our national narratives, how we can separate fact from falsehoods, and how we can cultivate spaces for cultural pride. Please feel free to spread the word and share the attached poster! Hope to see you there!

Conquering Columbus: Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
2021-10-11
Arizona State University hosts this webinar to describe the Doctrine of Discovery and consider its long-term negative impacts on Indigenous people. This panel of experts will discuss how the doctrine rationalized the taking of Indigenous lands, exploited Indigenous peoples, and devastated their cultures.

Fresh vs. Frozen?
2021-10-11
Join COCC Cascade Culinary Institute to hear about the latest science in the fresh vs. frozen debate from Ann Colonna of the OSU Food Innovation Center. Learn about the latest processes for flash frozen seafood and vegetables and even participate in a blind taste test of fresh vs frozen Oregon seafood prepared by COCC Cascade Culinary Institute students. Which tastes better? Which supports local farmers and fisherman? Which is better for the environment? Ann and her team put consumers (…and chefs and buyers) to the test — and the answer might surprise you!

Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery
2021-10-12, 2021-10-19
Join The Environmental Center every Tuesday for the month of October for Community Pint Nights at Deschutes Brewery!
We are the designated nonprofit beneficiary for Deschutes Brewery’s Community Pint Nights in October. Join us on Tuesdays in October at the downtown Public House or Tasting Room and Deschutes Brewery will donate $1 from every pint sold to The Environmental Center.
Mark your calendars—we hope to see you there! Oct 5, 12, 19, and 26.
Many thanks to Deschutes Brewery for being supporters of our work!

Adapting Your Garden and Landscape for Climate Change
2021-10-12
Northwest gardeners and landscapers are accustomed to our Mediterranean climate with mild, wet winters and warm, dry summers. With climate change, we can expect more variability in our weather with more frequent and intense weather events. How will these extreme events affect your plants? Learn strategies to adapt your garden and landscape to these new conditions.
Registration information to come.

InFARMation Fall Series: Uncovering the Dirty Parts of Farming
2021-10-12
Conversations around farm workers rights, climate justice and animal welfare. More details coming soon!

2021 Northwest Green Building Slam + Summit
2021-10-13 - 2021-10-15
Join the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild for this LIVE virtual event and design your unique experience to ensure you don’t miss the sessions you want to see most! Find out what your peers have been working on, and share what you’ve accomplished over the past year at this annual event. Exchanging ideas, tips, and tools is the best way to transform the built environment for long-term sustainability.

Soil Health for School Gardens Workshop
2021-10-13
We know a lot of gardens were unused during the Covid-19 school closures, and as a result are in need of some love. So we’re partnering with local experts to bring you a workshop focusing on soil health for school gardens.
We’ll cover:

4 principles to creating and maintaining soil health
Fun ways to engage your students
Native and pollinator plants for our region
Hands on soil amendment work at the Step Up school garden, just 2 blocks from the meeting space.

Educators will also receive:

$50 visa gift card (we know your busy, thanks for coming)
$250 towards soil amendment supplies for their school (1 per school, potential for covering cost of delivery of bulk compost to school as well)
Follow up assistance and logistics securing volunteers to spread bulk compost at school site if needed.
Dinner and kombucha
Regionally specific handouts, and more

We know schools and districts have different schedules and that some of you can’t make the chosen date and time. Please RSVP if you are interested anyway, as we will come up with a virtual alternative.
Email Denise to get added to the email list to stay in the loop for the next Garden Educator Network regional gatherings.

Rethinking How to Teach About the First Thanksgiving [Virtual]
2021-10-13
In these changing times and with more time being spent on virtual platforms, we recognize that finding the time to engage in full day training is not always possible, so we are offering a series of “Bite Sized” Professional Development opportunities. These virtual training sessions will address individual topics, and highlight how your teaching can align with Oregon’s Senate Bill 13: Tribal History/Shared History and Washington’s Since Time Immemorial.
In this session, we are not going to talk about that fateful dinner called Thanksgiving. The discussion will be focused around The Wampanoags: The People who Met the Pilgrims: A perspective of power and partnership (for grades K-2), and how you as an educator can learn from their experience developing this curriculum, and be a part of challenging history and stereotypes about Indigenous peoples.
Two sessions available, content will be the same for each session: Wednesday 10/13/2021 or Wednesday 10/20/2021. Signing up here signs you up for the October 13th session – if you wish to sign up for the 20th session, please do so here.

Sage Summit
2021-10-14
In just two weeks, NAO is combining the High Desert Conference and the Eastern Oregon Nonprofit Conference into one virtual summit with keynote speaker, Carol Cheney, Chief Executive Officer at the Collins Foundation! They have an exciting line-up of sessions, speakers, and panels planned. If you’re a nonprofit leader in Oregon, particularly in Eastern or Central Oregon, don’t miss the opportunity to attend.

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Food Heritage of Turtle Island
2021-10-14
Join on October 14 in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day (in the United States) and World Food Day 2021 to learn from Indigenous Chefs and Producers of Turtle Island (North America). Engage with Indigenous chefs, producers and international experts on the importance of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and cuisine in the kitchen, production, policy, schools and community.

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in the Sustainable Building Industry
2021-10-14
The ZERO Coalition is proud to present this training focused on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in the Sustainable Building Industry. Participants will learn JEDI concepts, uncovering implicit biases, and actions to implement immediate change.
Join and be sure to register before October 8th for early bird tickets!

Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Reward – How to Recreate Safely in Oregon’s High Desert
2021-10-14
Would you know what to do if you were injured while exploring the desert?
In April 2019, Oregon Desert Trail thru-hiker Stacy Boone sustained a debilitating injury in the Owyhee region. In the summer of that same year, long-distance biker Tomas Quinones came to the aid of an unconscious man while he was bikepacking through the Greater Hart-Sheldon. To help you learn from their experiences, Oregon Desert Trail Coordinator Renee Patrick will facilitate a conversation between these two desert explorers, highlighting two sides of search and rescue efforts.

Student Voices on Climate Futures
2021-10-14
Join OGS|PDX for a student-led discussion on climate futures and resilience. Students are demanding climate action in Portland and beyond. They are feeling the effects of climate change very deeply as it rapidly unfolds before their eyes. Join us for a lively discussion with local Oregon high school students from PPS, Forest Grove, and other districts to hear their thoughts about the urgent need to fix the climate. They will discuss how climate change is currently affecting them and what they think the solutions are from their perspective. Those of us in the field will have the ability to ask them questions and they in turn will be able to ask us the tough questions right back.

Bend COTA Work Events
2021-10-14
When: Thursday Aug 11, Tuesday Aug 16, Tuesday Aug 23 and Tuesday Aug 30, 5:15 to Dusk
Where: Meet at the old Ray’s parking lot, NE corner of Simpson Ave and Century Drive in Bend
Worksite: Varies
There’s only one thing better than mountain biking in Bend, OR and that’s riding in Bend, knowing that you helped build and maintain the trails you love.
Please bring a hydration pack with water and a snack.
Be sure to bring appropriate layers to accommodate whatever the weather may be.
Questions? contact@cotamtb.com
All COTA trail work events require the following safety measures:
All participants are required to have the following protective clothing and equipment:

Sturdy shoes or boots
Gloves
Eye protection with clear or light colored lens
Long pants

Due to COTA’s insurance requirements and the inherent dangers of trail work, we must implement the following policy regarding children at work events:

For anyone 14 years of age or younger, we require one parent, guardian, or responsible adult for supervision of every four kids attending any COTA trail work events.
All minors under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian available to sign our waiver.

Anyone who arrives for a work event may be turned away if he/she cannot meet the above requirements.

MEASURE WHAT YOU VALUE: TEEING UP MORE MEANINGFUL PLANNING WITH AN EQUITY ATLAS ​
2021-10-14
The events of 2020 and early 2021 have magnified many longstanding issues and concerns related to systemic racism, inequitable development, and many other social injustices in our communities. A more equitable approach to planning and designing our cities will require a more inclusive process and a rethinking of how communities track past trends, understand existing conditions, and define the highest priority problems.
No pre-registration is required and attendance is free, but seating is limited.

Healthy Homes - Energy Efficiency, Electrification and Equity
2021-10-15
Join Electrify Now and the ZERO Coalition to explore how weatherization and electrification programs and policies can help energy burdened households lower their energy bills and create healthier homes.

World Food Day
2021-10-16
Celebrated annually on 16 October, World Food Day serves as an opportunity to raise awareness and take actions for those who suffer from hunger and the need to provide healthy diets for all.

The food we choose and the way we produce, prepare, cook, and store has an impact on how our agri-food systems work. This year World Food Day calls for collective actions towards building more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems for “Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life,” leaving no one behind.

As a global community, we each have a role to play in the transformation of agri-food systems – from governments to private companies, farmers, civil society, academia, and all individuals, including youth! Together we can empower each element of our agri-food systems to collaborate more fairly, sustainably, and inclusively from farm to table, and beyond.

Mad Science Family Program
2021-10-16
Unleash your inner mad scientist while your family experiments with colorful, fun, and messy chemistry! See if you can inflate balloons using chemical reactions, discover membrane madness to create bouncy eggs, and experience the chaos of making slime, elephant toothpaste and more. Capacity is limited, so secure your family’s spot early.

SOLVE Ochoco Creek Clean-up: Womxn in Conservation Crew
2021-10-16
Looking to connect with fellow Womxn in Conservation and make a difference at the same time? Join at an Ochoco Creek clean-up on Saturday, October 16th from 11 am-2pm in Prineville. Volunteers will work together as a COWC team both in the water and along the creek.
If you’d like to be part of the COWC team, let leadership team member Megan Hill know via email by Monday, October 11th.
Due to the complexities of working in the creek, no one under 12 will be allowed to be in the Creek itself. Under 16 must be with a parent or guardian. A limited number of waders are available to be borrowed, let me know if you need waders.

Seasons of the Desert
2021-10-16
Each season in Oregon’s high desert, a new world unfolds. From spring blooms to autumn’s migrating birds, this virtual presentation will teach you a bit about what you’ll find year-round in the desert and provide travel suggestions to appreciate seasonal wonders.
This event will be hosted on Zoom, registration is free and required. Only one person per household should register. All registrants will also receive a captioned recording of the presentation.

Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit
2021-10-17 - 2021-10-23
​The 2022 Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit (in partnership with the Oregon Trails Summit) combines fun and high impact, in-person networking opportunities with conference programming on the important issues of the day, educational content, trails stewardship work parties, and in-field tours and workshops.
The summit will convene Oregon’s diverse outdoor community to learn, build relationships, and find solutions to the challenges in developing and elevating outdoor recreation opportunities for all.

Stand Up for Healthy Schools - a grassroots advocacy training!
2021-10-17
Learn how to make your voice heard. Hear from parents, educators, and healthcare experts from right here in Oregon on how you can take action for safe and healthy schools! It is time to show up, speak up, and defend our schools.
Hosted by: We Win Strategy Group, Hands In Oregon, and The Healthy Schools Project.

Wildlife and Landscape Photography Workshop
2021-10-17
Join professional nature photographer Christian Murillo for an afternoon of wildlife and landscape photography right in Sunriver. This workshop will focus on building the techniques and tools necessary to capture engaging nature photography. Whether you would like to learn how to use your camera better, how to find creative compositions, or how to work with natural light, there will be opportunities to learn all of the above during this workshop. All experience levels and any camera equipment (even smartphones!) are welcome.
Workshop is limited to 10 participants so secure your spot early. SNCO Members receive a 15% discount on registration.

Centering Black and Brown Experience: Walking While Black & Celebrating Ruby Bridges
2021-10-19
ODOT SRTS aims to create inclusive programs for all students and families, where they can feel safe and secure walking and rolling to school. Unfortunately, for many in Oregon, walking and rolling can feel unsafe. Join us on October 19th at noon, with speaker Ashton Simpson (Oregon Walks) who will talk about the issues Black and Brown community members face, and give insight on how to make SRTS programs better for all. The SRTS Technical Assistance team will also discuss Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, which celebrates 6 year old Ruby’s heroism and bravery, and ways to promote safe walking and biking while it gets darker, colder and rainier in Oregon.

Know Mystery - Microbes in Seeds
2021-10-19
Explore how microbes end up inside seeds, how their communities impact plant health, and future directions for ecological research on seed microbes.
